Hidden Gem in Ninghai | Beautiful Tang-style Temple - Guangde Temple

| Beautiful Tang-style Temple - Guangde Temple. Don't miss this beautiful ancient temple when you visit Ningbo. It's a hidden gem and a great place for photos!

🌈 Guangde Temple is divided into the old courtyard and the new courtyard, but all the buildings are in Tang and Song style. The best place for photos is the new courtyard with Tang-style brick and wood structures. The magnificent layout and exquisite carvings reflect the harmonious and solemn Buddhist connotation.

🙏 From south to north, the best place for photos is outside the new courtyard. The all-wooden five-story pagoda in the old courtyard makes you feel like you are in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, which is not to be missed.

❤ Recommended reasons:
✔️ Large scale! But few tourists! Very "quiet"
✔️ The architecture of Guangde Temple is distinctive! It is eye-catching
✔️ The temple gives people a sense of tranquility and peace! It has a strong Tang-style Zen atmosphere
✔️ Wooden rooms, well-trimmed pines and cypresses, and ancient Longquan... are super beautiful

🌟 Highlights:
Guangde Temple is home to many intangible cultural heritage items. The two statues of the two generals at the entrance of the new hall are said to weigh four tons each, so before the hall was built, the raw materials were hoisted in for the intangible cultural heritage masters to carve on site. The Buddha statues in the hall are all hand-carved from wood and colored with gilding techniques after completion. The most spectacular is the "Three Flowers on the Roof" decoration, which is also carved from wood and gilded, and the Buddha statues around the hall are all hung with Siming Buddha paintings, which are painted with a variety of minerals and are almost extinct in China. The couplets hanging on the pillars of the hall are also all made of intangible cultural heritage gold thread embroidery. What's more unique is that the top of the hall is surrounded by flying fairies outside the window, imitating Dunhuang.

📍 Address: Guangde Temple, Ninghai County, Ningbo City
🚉 Transportation: Take a high-speed train to Ninghai Station, transfer to bus 822 to "Xidian Hospital Station" and transfer to bus 827 to "Xiatianfan Bus Station", or take a taxi directly, about 50-60.
🅿️ Parking: The temple has a large free parking lot
⏰ Opening hours: 7:30–10:30, 13:30–16:30
🎫 Tickets: Free

Post by Theodore McLeod84 | Nov 17, 2024